Fastening device.



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FASTENING DEVICE. Application filed Dec. 28, 1901.} (No Model.)

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Patented Mar; l8, I902.

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' are secured series of brackets e for the sup- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFCE.

CHARLES RAYMOND SCHLIEPER, OF ELLIOTT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO EDWARD E. ERIKSON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING DEVICE.

SPECIFILGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,628, dated March18, 1902.

Application filed December 28, 1901. Serial No. 87,535. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES RAYMOND SOHLIEPER, residing at Elliottborough, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsyl- Vania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Fastening Devices,of whichimprovement the following is a specification, reference being-hadtherein to the accom pan ying drawings, in which- Figure 1 indicates aside elevation of an apparatus carrying tin-plate through thebranning-trough, showing my improved fastening Fig. 2 is a plan viewofthe same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail showing my improved fasteningdevice and a portion of the conveyor-chain. Fig. 4 is an inverted planView of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in mechanism for fastening bracketsand similar devices upon stationary supports, and par-- ticularly toimproved means for fastening brackets or supports for carryingtin-plate, metal sheets, or other similar objects; and to this purposemy invention consists inthe novel construction and arrangement of partshereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, in which like referencecharacters indicate like parts wherever they occur.

Referring to said drawings, A is an apparatus or conveyer for carryingtin-plate after the same has been annealed, galvanized, or tinned andcomprises an endless chainor chains a, operating over drums b, which aremounted upon shafts c and driven in any suitable manner. Said chains areconnected by bars 01, transversely disposed, to which port of thetin-plate f. The said bracket 6 comprises a U-shaped bar, the side ofwhich adjacent to the transverse bars to which it is connected'having ahorizontally-disposed U- shaped loop g, adapted to project through anorifice h, preferably square in cross-section, formed in the cross-barsof the carrier. A split pin or bolt is is inserted between or in theU-shaped loop g and engages against the rear face of the plate attachedto the carrier.

, Heretofore, so far as I am aware, in devices of this general characterit has been usual to weld a lug upon the U-shaped bracket at rightangles thereto, which lug was provided with bolt or rivet orifices forsecuring the same to the cross-bars of the carrier. This manner ofattachment of the bracket to the vided with a loop, a plate or barhaving an I orifice therein adaptedto receive said loop,

andapin adapted to be inserted in said loop and straddle the orifice. insaid bar or plate.

2. A support forcarryin g tin-plate or metal plates comprising abracket, one member of which is provided with a horizontally-disposedloop, in combination with a plate or bar having an opening orperforation therein adapted to receive said loop, and a split pinadapted to be inserted in said loop and straddie theopening in saidplateor bar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES RAYMOND SOHLIEPERT In presence of- CLARENCE A. WILLIAMS, J OHNH. RONEY.

